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Researchers studying non-human females have highlighted the role of intrasexual resource competition. Here, we considered women's intrasexual competitive attitudes toward rival derogation and self-promotion as a function of resource availability. Further, we tested the overarching hypothesis that both trait and state envy are complicit in the motivation to compete with intrasexual rivals in the face of resource scarcity. Using a resource availability prime, in Study 1 (N = 167), Canadian heterosexual young adult women in the resource scarcity condition held greater derogatory attitudes toward rivals when they were average or high in dispositional envy. However, contrary to our prediction for self-promotion, the interaction demonstrated that the resource scarcity prime was only effective among women low in envy. In Study 2 (N = 132), there were indirect effects for heightened state envy on the link between resource scarcity with stronger attitudes toward rival derogation. These findings highlight that resource availability exerts an important influence on women's intrasexual rivalry, which appears to be driven, in part, by envy experienced in the face of perceived resource scarcity.

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Author

Steven Arnocky; Adam C. Davis; Tracy Vaillancourt

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)